permissive

permissive is a 10-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Permitting; granting leave or liberty. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 20 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Permitting; granting leave or liberty.
2. adjective. Permitted; tolerated; suffered.
3. adjective. granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline

   "direct primary legislation is largely permissive rather than prescriptive"

   "permissive parents"

4. adjective. not preventive

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in permissive:

impressive

Common word forms

permissively, permissiveness

Words from these letters

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